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Sony Corporation Chairman Kaz Hirai Visual China Group via Getty Images Sony Corporation (Sony) has been at the forefront as the world's leading innovator for years. This has resulted in Sony owning the largest music business through Sony Music Entertainment, operating the largest video game console business and being the leader in video game publishing business.

Paul Brody, Global Blockchain Innovation Leader of EY Getty Images The idea that enterprises could use a public blockchain network is usually met with a lot of skepticism and raised eyebrows by the senior executives in Fortune 500 company boardrooms. Most of the time, engineers and product owners are even scared to mention any of the public blockchain networks as a viable protocol when designing future solutions.

Just a few months since China's president Xi Jinping announced blockchain as one of the country's technological priorities and advocated to "seize the opportunity", there has been a lot of progress on the main blockchain initiatives and most of them will be in production very soon.